A woman shared how she is obsessed with strangers and addicted to see what they are doing with their lives on social media, and she ends up being envious.

Here is the story:

I obsess over strangers

Anyone else constantly comparing their lives to people on social media? Just me?

I have a decent life. I’m a happily married stay-at-home mum, with a beautiful house and the husband and children I’ve always dreamed of so why am I always so fixated on what other people are doing?

I’m happy with my life until I get on social media and see other people getting new cars or going on family vacations or even just posting cute family pics and then I get so envious.

Is something wrong with me or is this normal? How do I enjoy my own life AND be happy for others when they experience good things instead of the “why not me” feeling? It’s so ugly.

Netizens comments

You gotta take a break from social media. Its a constant comparing game seeking validation from strangers. I just deleted my instagram and tik tok, and I already feel a lot better about myself

It’s pretty normal to feel that way, but that doesn’t make a good thing. Social media is where everyone posts stuff that makes their lives look great. It’s not an accurate representation of what’s really going on in their lives. Sometimes information avoidance is the route to go for lack of a better method.

Delete It all. It’s the worst. My overall mental health has gotten so much better. Since then I’ve found it easier to give up other bad habits as well. It’s insane how much of an effect social media has on our brains.

My head is all over the place right now so I apologise in advance if this doesn’t make a lot of sense.

I was engaged 6 years ago. We were living together but one day I went home to find all of his belongings gone and a note saying he was sorry and that he loved me so he was setting me free. I tried contacting him but he had blocked me on everything, I tried contacting his family and friends but everybody refused to tell me where he was or if they had even been in touch with him to make sure he was okay. It was the worst time of my life and it took me 2 years to feel like a semi-functional human being again.

Yesterday my dad told me we would have a guest for dinner so I should dress up nicely (I live with them now and have for the past 6 years). This isn’t unusual since my dad sometimes invites his associates/clients for dinner.

The guest was my ex. I was completely blindsided because I never expected to see him again and my dad absolutely hated him back when we were engaged (enough to disown me unless I broke up with him) so it made no sense that he would be inviting him for dinner. The longer he was there, the more it started making sense. My ex has changed a lot, now he’s the type of person my dad would respect and it was obvious my dad liked the new him a lot.

I tried really hard not to cause a scene but half-way through dinner I just lost it. I was crying a lot and demanding to know why he was here. My dad suggested the two of us talk privately so we went into another room.

The conversation we had was long but the short version is he left because he felt guilty for making me choose between him or my family and he could see I was unhappy that they had cut me off. He wants a second chance now that he’s back because he thinks things will be different now.

I don’t know what to do. Part of me has never stopped loving him but a huge part of me is scared to get hurt again. He is also so different now and I don’t know if things would be the same between us. I also know my dad was a big reason he left me in the first place, which I always suspected but it hurts having it confirmed.

Any advice?

This is going to sound like the craziest thing ever, but I don’t care. If you want to comment mean things, go right ahead. It’s just more engagement on my post.

Also, I’m not sure if I can post this in the parenting FB group since they’re not human kids.

Anyway, here it is.

Ever since I was a kid, I’ve been buying stuffed animals, and I started taking care of them like my kids until they actually became my kids. They all have their own voices and personalities, and I love them all.

I have no idea how this happened. It’s just been happening and has been a part of my everyday life ever since I could remember. It probably happened as a mixed result from my autism and a stress response from my evil dad.

But now this is my life, and I couldn’t imagine it without my stuffed animal children! Anyway, this was just an introduction. I’ll post more later.

I know not everyone is going to understand or be nice about it but I’m going to continue posting about my kids. Cheers.

This…this blew up. Please continue sharing your stories about your own stuffed animals! We’re all in this together. thank you so much. It makes me so happy to hear about your stuffed animals.

Send me any info you want about them. I’m hanging out with my mom tonight (who is a human btw) but if I don’t update by tomorrow I definitely will tomorrow! There’s so much I want to share!

Here are what netizens think:

My cats love their stuffed animals friends and lay all over them and hug them when they sleep. It’s the happiest part of my life, having my cats and teddies get along. You sound like my cat.

I’m glad to see that there’s a lot more people out here who are the same way. My boyfriend and I went on vacation last May and we found this little dolphin stuffy, it was the cutest thing ever so we got him. It happened pretty quickly where we were making a joke and I said, “Don’t talk to me or my Dolphin Son ever again!” and the name just kind of stuck. I would always refer to him as Dolphin Son and then my boyfriend got into it also.

I missed my daughters birth because my wife valued our daughter being born on 2/22/22 over me being present.

For our second child, first girl, my wife was told she needed to have a c-section. The doctor we have only allows a scheduled c-section at 39 weeks.

My wife had the option of picking any day of the week and really wanted our daughter to be born on 2/22/22. I cannot lie that is an absolutely awesome birthday, but that was the only day of the week I could not be available.

A coworker, in advance requested to be off that day, and while I tried negotiating with my boss he said I couldn’t miss work that day.

I pleaded with my wife for weeks but she would not change the date saying ‘her body her choice’. And I agree its her body, but I did not want to miss my daughters birth. I didn’t want to wait hours to be able to be able to hold my daughter. I also wanted to be there for my wife!! but she did not even seem to care.

She just wanted our daughter to have a cool birthday over me present. Its been hurting me to know from weeks in advance that I would miss my daughters birth.

Four hours ago my daughter was officially born and I have yet to hold her. I have so much emotions stirring inside of me at the moment and I have to keep a straight face due to being at work.

Netizens’ comments

• Yeah no offense at all but, I’d walk off that job site without a seconds thought.

• His wife chose a birthdate over her husband. Of course a crappy manager is going to choose the company over an employee, that’s to be expected, but a wife choosing something this trivial over her husband is unforgivable in my opinion.

As soon as she knew that date her husband could not be available, that date should have been off the table.

I feel like I am in a super weird situation. My boyfriend said he wanted to try out dating other people to get some experience and I suggested a possible open relationship to try out. He said he was dating another girl and did not want an open relationship because he was afraid she would not accept that.

I found this weird because in that sense he was choosing her and not me, I confronted him about it and he said he was not looking for a long term relationship but just wanted to try out being with another person. If it did not work out with her he wanted to go back to me in the future again or he saw a possibility try some other girls/ relationships and see if he would be interested in me after that.

For me this is really confusing as he said he really cared for me and that I was perfect to be in a relationship with but he still wanted to try out other relationships and then much later in life when he is ready again to come back to me again.. Is this some kind of relationship shopping? I have never experienced this before and still really love him but I also feel I am being put second and kind of as a reserve?

I don’t know how to feel about this. Is this normal? Is this a thing people do at some point in their relationship as a new and exciting thing? Or is this a way of breaking up and not trying to hurt the other person by giving them some hope? I feel so confused that I don’t know if I should be angry or sad. Is it worth it to be in touch with such a person and hope for them to come back to you at some point? It sounds very silly to me but I don’t know if it’s me having high expectations for a relationship or if this is normal…

Forgot to mention, he also said that we could still do physical things like kissing and hugging but just not calling it a relationship. We are supposed to have a talk on Friday as he still wanted to talk to me in person (we only talked on the phone so far).

just found out I was a “practice relationship”. Oh well. What a day to be alive. Just want to thank everyone for their kind words and for taking the time to read this and reply. I definitely do not want to get back together with this person ever again.